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“The weather words for this week are ‘be patient,’ snow lovers and skiers,” Mr. Stevens said. “Usually winters with similar El Niños that have reached their peak are back-loaded.”
Mr. Bastardi said there have been winters in the past that have started like this year, where the water temperature (referring to the Atlantic Ocean) is warmer than average as a source of energy to produce big storms.
“And those late-starting winters have turned into blockbusters later in January, February and March.”
For example, he said, the winter of 1968 and 1969 started out very similar to this winter, but included a February storm that was one of the biggest ever to hit the Boston area.
Mr. D’Aleo’s take on this winter is that, while there might not be very many small storms, there could be one or two very big storms that, depending on the path they take, could bury the area in snow. He said this winter is similar to the El Niño winter of 1977-78, which featured a series of major storms in January and early February that reached their peak with the famed Blizzard of ’78, a storm so big that upper-level winds surrounding it steered every storm that followed that winter harmlessly out to sea.
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“The weather words for this week are ‘be patient,’ snow lovers and skiers,” Mr. Stevens said. “Usually winters with similar El Niños that have reached their peak are back-loaded.”
Mr. Bastardi said there have been winters in the past that have started like this year, where the water temperature (referring to the Atlantic Ocean) is warmer than average as a source of energy to produce big storms.
“And those late-starting winters have turned into blockbusters later in January, February and March.”
For example, he said, the winter of 1968 and 1969 started out very similar to this winter, but included a February storm that was one of the biggest ever to hit the Boston area.
Mr. D’Aleo’s take on this winter is that, while there might not be very many small storms, there could be one or two very big storms that, depending on the path they take, could bury the area in snow. He said this winter is similar to the El Niño winter of 1977-78, which featured a series of major storms in January and early February that reached their peak with the famed Blizzard of ’78, a storm so big that upper-level winds surrounding it steered every storm that followed that winter harmlessly out to sea.
